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Growing readers and choosing texts: motivation, text choice, read-alouds, reading assessment, and striving readers.

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Disciplinary Literacy
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Reading like a scientist is not the same as reading like a historian.

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Adolescent Literacy & Struggling Readers
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

By secondary school, reading is assumed, but many students still struggle, with decoding, fluency, vocabulary, or comprehension.

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Assessing Reading
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

You cannot teach reading well without knowing what each student can and cannot do.

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Reading Motivation & Volume
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Skilled readers are made partly by how much they read.

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Choosing Texts for Readers
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

The texts you put in front of a reader matter as much as how you teach.

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Small-Group Reading Instruction
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Whole-class reading instruction cannot meet every reader where they are, which is why targeted small-group instruction matters.

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Interactive Read-Alouds
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Reading aloud to students is one of the most powerful and underused teaching tools, but only when it is interactive.

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Reading Digital & Multimodal Texts
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Much of what students read now is digital and multimodal, websites, infographics, videos, mixed text and image, read on screens, with hyperlinks and distractions.

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Synthesis Across Texts
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Understanding one text is hard enough; integrating several, comparing, connecting, and building a bigger understanding across multiple sources, is harder still, and essential.

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Teaching Poetry
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Poetry packs meaning, sound, and emotion into few words, and it can intimidate students and teachers alike.

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Literature Circles & Book Clubs
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

When students talk about books with each other, really talk, sharing reactions, questioning, and building on ideas, reading comes alive and comprehension deepens.

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